https://www.discoverwildlife.com/tv/lemurs-licking-millipedes-bbc
They are chewing the millipedes, and then rubbing the saliva and millipede into their fur to act as an insecticide against malaria carrying mosquitoes.
However, this produces an unexpected side effect – the chemicals appear to send them into a “trancelike state” and a “condition of complete intoxication”.
To be fair, the anti-malarial drug Meflaquine/Larium does the same thing to people a bit after you take it.
So we can just chew millipedes and skip big pharma?
I’m not stopping you.
Yes… to protect ourselves from malaria 🐒
I’m curious about the assertion that this is ‘to protect themselves from malaria carrying mosquitoes’. How do the scientists know this is the motivation, rather than a helpful side-effect?
Not too mention the implication that lemurs know what malaria is. What else have these scientists been hiding from us???
They don’t have to know it, they just have to lick it
ikr I was starting to feel pretty stupid for not coming up with my own vaccines
Have you tried licking random millipedes to see what happens?
Doped Up Lemurs is kinda a great band name.
“Y’all got anymore of them millipedes…?”
They just called millipedes insects like that?
What nickname do you think lemurs would give the drug if they could? Maybe “snerch”
Mlom
würm
“Julian’s Jive”
Hell yeah, I hope those lemurs have a great time!
Millipedes out here sending lemurs to Zobooland
Zoboomafoo didn’t take the cancellation of his show well.
animals like being a little fucked up sometimes, as a treat, we all do it
Not joking I’m curious
When will it be synthesized and on headship shelves!?
What? Who needs synthesis. Hakuna Matata
This is definitely what they see when they zonk out
he liles to move it move it
Okay what species of millipede and is it too endangered for me to go find and lick
